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Venky Iyer commented on HIVE-1082:
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What I want is to create a table if the table doesn't exist already. If it does
exist, I want Hive to verify that its schema is identical to the schema I've
specified. Basically, at the end of a successful statement, the schema in Hive
should be exactly what I specified in the last CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS
statement.
> "create table if not exists " should check if the specified schema matches
> the existing schema, and throw an error if it doesnt.
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> Key: HIVE-1082
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1082
> Project: Hadoop Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Venky Iyer
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> I think we should make sure that the table can either be created anew with
> the specified properties, or it already exists with those properties, where
> 'properties' includes all metadata except timestamps. Anything else is an
> error. This makes sense if you think of a table as the name + its schema,
> instead of the name alone.
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